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Biden’s upbeat State of the Union in unsteady times splits state lawmakers
Friday, March 4, 2022
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday in a speech that toggled between plans for tackling domestic challenges and reasserting U.S. international leadership.
The hour-long address came in a Capitol that was ringed with police and security fencing reminiscent of the January 6 attack, but where waning COVID-19 cases let lawmakers go maskless for the first time in two years. It also came against a backdrop of war in Ukraine and surging inflation at home that has tempered strong gains in employment and wages.
Biden acknowledged those challenges but also painted an optimistic picture of America, a nation he said was “defined by a single word: possibilities.”
“The state of the union is strong because you, the American people, are strong,” he said at the end of the address. “We are stronger than we were a year ago. And we will be stronger a year from now than we are today.”
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Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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